Re: gns3

Aaron,
     If you have the means, I HIGHLY recommend getting a dedicated
machine for this. A workstation or something at your house. That way you
can dedicate it to GNS and use your laptop as your putty client and
Visio/PDF reader/etc. I'm a bit spoiled as our datacenter is doing a big
P2V flip so I commandeered a fat server 16 cores and 64Gs of memory. But
that is extreme overkill and with a full vendor lab I run relatively
idle. With Debian or most other light linux variants (Like Brian running
Mint) you can run a full lab on most modern boxes.

If you are stuck with just the laptop referenced you might consider some
more memory.

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 3/16/2012 3:50 AM, Yuri Bank wrote:
> I always set the idlemax value in the .net file itself. I do not believe
> you can set this in the gns3 GUI (at least not in the version I have). Save
> your topology first, and then set the value. Along with good idlepc value,
> you will see a big difference.
>
> -Yuri
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Aaron<aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Yuri, I looked around in there and dont see anything about idle
>> max.i see the idle pc though. Where is idle max?****
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>> Aaron****
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>> *From:* Yuri Bank [mailto:yuribank_at_gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:59 PM
>> *To:* Aaron
>> *Cc:* Cisco certification
>> *Subject:* Re: gns3****
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>> Try adjusting the idlemax value. This can save you a LOT of cpu cycles! I
>> like to set it at around 500, some people go much higher. I've found that
>> large topologies will exhibit instabilities if you increase it too much.
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>> You should be able to run 8 routers, without any issues with those specs.
>> Even better if you install Linux!
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>> -Yuri****
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>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Aaron<aaron1_at_gvtc.com> wrote:****
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>> I just installed gns3 for the first time
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>> It's pretty cool.
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>> When I fire up 3 or 4 or 5 instances of a 7200 router using 12.4T adv entr
>> svc my laptop bogs down terribly. I did the idle pc thing a few times and
>> with a few routers it seemed to help. But after doing 4 or 5 or more it
>> didn't seem to help any.
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>> My laptop is not so new. lemme know what you think
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>> Dell Latitude D830
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>> Inter Core 2 Duo CPU
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>> T7250 2.00 GHz
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>> 2 GB Ram
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>> Windows XP Pro SP3
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>> Aaron
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